Curren$y and more) and for backing breakout soul singer Charles Bradley on his 2011 debut album No Time For Dreaming (co-written and produced by MSB co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Brenneck)
and aficionados of rare-grooves
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with modern studio facilities and quality instruments (Mergia was using Farfisa and Godwin organs at the time)
hushed vocals to create a sound that draws from blues
Alex Zhang Hungtai - Orion/Mother Vinyl 2LP no-media-mail Curren$y and more) and forAlex Zhang Hungtai's new double album Orion Mother, a brave, gigantic burst of life, creativity, and abstract balladry, alchemizes the past and the present, sampling home recordings he made with some of New Yorks finest improvisers while spontaneously composing on top of them with trumpet and other instruments. Its the sound of an artist addressing unresolved fragments from his past, integrating them into the present, and building a new path. The